Christmas Art Exhibition

You are invited to help us celebrate!

Year 5 and 6 have done an amazing job with their Christmas artworks for the annual art competition this year. We are holding an exhibition to celebrate each child's efforts. Opening night will include opportunities for you to meet the artists and hear about their creative process. Light refreshments will be included. A cost of $10 per family will help us to cover the cost of hiring the gallery and providing drinks and nibbles.

When: Monday, 3rd November, 2014
Time: 5-7pm
Where: Shellharbour Village Exhibition Space
             Cnr Addison and Wentworth Streets
             Shellharbour Village
 Cost: $10 per family

Performances

Costumes for the Performance - 25th June at 2pm

PUT YOUR NAME ON EVERYTHING

Years 3 & 4

Years 3 and 4 have been learning about music in the 80's. For your performance, choose some 80's style clothing, remembering that the weather may be quite cool in June. Please think carefully about your shoes - you need to be able to jump and dance safely. Ensure you bring your clothes to school in a separate bag with your name on it. There are over 100 children performing and getting changed on the day so ensure that your clothes have your name on them. Remember to take care of your belongings. YOU are responsible for any clothing or accessories you bring in on the day. 

Years 5 & 6

You are seasoned professionals at this process!
Years 5 and 6 have chosen to perform the 'Grease Megamix'. Costumes for the girls are the same style as they wore for last years 50's performance, with colourful swirling skirts, funky hair/neck scarves and converse style shoes (they don't have to be 'Converse' brand of course!) Please wear tights under your skirts so that they can flare when you spin.

For the boys, wear 'Danny' style clothes with an old shirt over the top that you can spin and throw. You will need an additional jacket, cardigan or collared shirt (that you wear for the duration of the performance) which you can use to flip the shoulders of during the 'Grease Lightening' song. Jeans and converse style shoes will work well. Remember you will be throwing your shirt so PUT YOUR NAME ON IT - there will be around 60 shirts flying through the air, you will need to be able to find yours at the end! Don't throw any leather jackets. The girls will grab your shirt as they skip off and you will find it at the end - first and last names please. If you want to wear a hat, make sure it will firmly stay on your head the whole time.

For the Pink Ladies - you need your pink jackets
For the T-Birds - you need to wear black where possible - If you have a comb at home that you can put in your pocket for 'cool hair' combing during the performance, please bring that in too.

Some things we learnt from last year:
1. No high heels - you will twist your ankle and they fall off when you walk. SAFE shoes only.
2. When you are changing your jeans, you need to take your shoes off first or your feet will get stuck. Last year there was some feet rescuing jean cutting involved...
3. NAME ON EVERYTHING. Be aware of what you bring and come and look for any lost items in the music room the next day.
4. You will be dressing yourself. Don't rely on mum to come in and help you because you will be getting changed at different times during the day.
5. Girls, you don't need makeup. It is a 6 minute school performance not a weekend dance spectacular. You are naturally beautiful- we want to see you shine not your lipstick!


Best of luck and happy singing and dancing

Grease

Scenes from Grease to help with the mega-mix. Year 5 and 6 you may choose to dress in 'Grease Style' clothing using your costumes from the 50's dance last year or you may choose 80's style costumes based on your class dance. 

Year 6B - Remember you need to have BLACK and/or WHITE under your Grease costume for your class performance to make sense.

Guest Guitarist - Hayden

Year 3 were lucky enough to have Mia's cousin, Hayden, visit their music class. Thank you Mia, that is one incredibly talented cousin you have there! Hayden taught year 3 all about making and playing guitars and was kind enough to leave them a little gift to encourage their guitar playing skills. Here is a clip of Hayden from You Tube (you'll love his sweater). Perhaps Mia could twist his arm and convince him to visit us again soon!

Planning Our Performance - Years 3, 4, 5 and 6

After some long and very exciting discussions, it has been decided that we will have an 80's - early 90's theme for our performance this year. Children in stage 3 will also be involved in a 'Grease Mega-mix'. So start raiding your mum's wardrobe for brightly patterned clothes, shoulder pads, leg warmers and 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' style pants because we are going back to the 80's. We will be choosing songs that made an impact at the time due to the message that the artist was trying to portray. The 80's was all about pop, rock, electronic music and hip-hop. There was great change happening across the globe in peoples attitudes and access to opportunities, and this is reflected in the music of the time. Think about the message that some of these artists were sending:

Roxette - Dress for Success

 George Michael - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger

Kenny Loggins - Footloose (1984)  (Great example of 80's style clothing and dance)

Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone (From Top Gun)

Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters Theme Song (1984)

Michael Jackson - Black or White - 1991

John Farnham - You're the Voice - 1986

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - 1983

U.S.A for Africa - We are the World - 1985Roxette - Dresssed for Success

The Rock'n 50's

New photos from the 1950's dance are here! Just press the 'Music' tab. 

Poems We Like

Jacina chose this poem by Kenn Nesbit to share. Click the link: My parents sent me to the store

The Man From Snowy River 

Today we will read this well-known poem from a picture book, listen to the poem read aloud online and watch a scene from the movie. What is your response to Banjo Patterson's famous Australian poem?


Watch scenes from the movie and listen to the poem being read aloud.

Jim's Ride: A scene from the movie that might help you understand the poem a little more. 

Read the poem here

Now read the poem for yourself. Does it make more sense? Do you understand more of the vocabulary now?

Find out more: The history of the poem

Now find out a little more about the history behind the writing of this poem and the impact that it has had upon the Australian people. Did you know that Banjo Patterson and The Man from Snowy River are featured on our $10 note? 

Waltzing Matilda - Banjo Patterson

Homework Week 3 (29/7/13)

Forensic Science

 Inherited and other traits:

Task 1: Research some genetic traits that people have. Some examples include

• Darwin's point
• Hitchhikers thumb
• Widows peak
• Cleft chin

Task 2: Take a close look at yourself in the mirror. List some interesting aspects about your face (perhaps you have not noticed them before!). Some of these traits are inherited, others are individual. This is what makes you unique.

Task 3: List which of the following apply to you:
1. I have detached earlobes
2. I have a hitchhikers thumb
3. I can roll my tongue
4. I have straight hair
5. I have hair on my knuckles
6. I have a widows peak
7. I have freckles on my face
8. I have dimples when I smile
9. When I clasp my hands together my left thumb is on top
10. My big toe is longer than my other toes
11. I am right handed
12. I have a dimple in my chin
13. I can wiggle my ears

Task 4: Make a comparison graph, comparing yourself to the other people in your family. A simple bar or column graph will be fine. Which traits are the same? You might like to include your grandparents or even your great-grandparents as traits can sometimes skip a generation (bring your graph on Friday)

Task 5: Visit the following website:http://flashface.ctapt.de/
Select from a range of head, hair, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, chin and jaw options to form an identikit image of a face. Print it or copy and paste it to make a wanted poster.

Hope you have fun Mini-Forensic Scientists! (Due on Friday)

Great Inventions

Great inventions have been created when people have seen a problem and set about trying to solve it. They are also created to make life easier. Think about some great inventions:
* The first aeroplanes
* Electricity
* Early telephones
* Ways to make it over Niagara Falls alive (I'm serious there is a museum in Canada devoted to this).
* Early vehicles
* Clothing (think Antarctica)
* Sporting equipment
* Bicycles
* Bread making techniques
* Keeping time

Your task: Research one type of invention and its history. Write a paragraph about the invention, its inventor(s) and the way it has been developed through time. Add the paragraph to the blog. This is the link to the Collaborative Document. You can add pictures and more information here for your class mates to share. Happy thinking!

A reminder: Don't be a bystander

Building positive relationships is very important. We need to show positive leadership skills by making sure we are not 'BYSTANDERS' when it comes to bullying.  If you see or hear of any name calling, unfair treatment, exclusion from games or pushing and shoving, STAND UP and MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Year 5 Blog at Sts Peter and Paul Kiama

Have a look at the work the year 5 students in Kiama have been doing on 'Australian Identity'
Year 5 blog - Kiama

Making a difference - The star fish story

"Made a difference for that one..."

Making Lemonade

Today we wrote a procedure report about 'How to make lemonade'. This is the recipe we used as some of you wanted to try this at home. You can change it according to your taste preference. Enjoy!

2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup cold water
2 teaspoons white sugar

If you like your lemonade fizzy, you could use sparkling water.

Design using technology based drawing tools

Symmetrical Art Works

Emily created this symmetrical artwork design.

Designed by Cooper

Created by Natarsha

Year 5 Science Boards

Can you write the topic of your science board so that we can check that nobody else is doing the same thing (Caitlyn and Chloe M, you are doing the same topic but you're doing a different experiment). Comment under 'Science boards' in the comment box

The Jelly Experiement

I thought we might try a tasty experiment today after all of your work in NAPLAN this morning!

The aim of the experiment is to discover whether the colour of the jelly has an impact upon the flavour of the jelly. One part of the experiment will involve blindfolding some members of our class to see if this changes their opinion on the flavour. During this lesson you will be invited to take part in adding your predictions to a collaborative document. Using this document, all of the students in our class can make comments and predictions at the same time. You will be able to see each of these on your screen as we experiment. To access this document, click on the link that I have emailed you.

If you have a problem accessing this document through your email, click here: Link to collaborative document

I hope you have fun and enjoy the jelly!


Now that we have completed the experiment...
Did you notice that when you were blindfolded it was difficult to decide which flavour jelly you were tasting? You knew there was blue, green and red jelly and you were probably trying to figure out which of these colours matched the flavour in your mouth.

When we looked at the colours and tasted the jelly, the colour and the flavour made sense. Were you expecting an orange flavour when you tasted the orange jelly? As I look at your predictions on the collaborative document, I can see that most of you predicted the orange jelly would taste like an orange. 

Take a look at the photograph I took as I was making the red, blue and green jelly that you tasted while you were blindfolded. What does this tell you about the colour of a food and the flavour that you expect? Were you trying to pick a colour when the jelly was in your mouth? Make a comment in the comment box and post for others to see. 

The red, blue and green jelly that you tried were all the same flavour. I used 3 packets of lemonade jelly and added food colouring. Was your brain searching for a raspberry or lime flavour because you knew that there was red and green on the plate? 

Task: Complete the following sections of your scientific report in your Integration book (we got this ready of Monday). You may work with a partner if you like. We have written these reports as a class group, this will be your first time attempting this without guidance from the teacher. The purpose is to prepare you for your science boards where you will have to write independently. You need to write:

• The materials
• The method (steps)
• The results (we already drew the chart)
• The conclusion - based on the aim: Does the colour of the Jelly impact upon the flavour of the Jelly? Does your brain associate a colour with a flavour? Write about your experiences.

Good luck, I look forward to reading your responses. Remember, this is practice for your science boards so you need to do the best job that you can. 

Our School

Our school is located in a beautiful coastal village on the South Coast of NSW, Australia. We are truly blessed to live in such a beautiful place!

We have been photographing some of the natural spaces which are just outside our school gate. Obviously we have some budding future photographers in our class! There are more photographs on the 'Our Work' page. 

Photograph by Leah and Caitlyn

Photograph by Leah and Caitlyn

Photograph by Leah and Caitlyn